maskedinvader

'Facebook is one of the places where you actually meet most people of dissenting views to yours.'

I think Facebook has a strong motivation to tailor the newsfeed algorithm to keep you longer on Facebook, see more ads, generate more clicks and revenue etc, so there might be a case to be made in order to engage you more, the algorithm should show you more content you like or tend to agree with than ones you would not want to engage with (remember Facebook doesn't have a dislike button), so I think its not really a great place to meet most people of dissenting views to yours, I would actually speculate that its probably the other way around, Facebook is one fo the places where you meet most people sharing the same views as yours.

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like I said, I didn't read it as a rally for upvote, but rather a witty response to the previous comment. Unless he/she actually was rallying for upvotes and I read it wrong.

think he means student loans with collateral not doing well due to variety of reasons defined here [1] and I think you are thinking about underwater mortgages as defined here [2] 1. http://goo.gl/21TmQm 2. http://goo.gl/UVNIFr

why is this downvoted ? I didn't read this as an endorsement to upvote but rather as witty response to @argonaut , unless i'm missing something else entirely here and the downvotes are warranted.

isnt the answer that most of the stars are inside galaxies that are for the most part moving away from us and for that matter from each other (due to space itself expanding) with the speed of expansion or their apparent motion away from us proportional to their distance from us. This means most of the star light reaching us is red shifted (due to doppler effect of light) and since we humans cannot see this red shifted light, the night sky appears dark to us. anybody with a physics background can point out where I got this wrong, but I thought this is why the sky is dark.

thanks for this. wondering what was the motivation for the change!

care to elaborate ?

I think he/she means, Those who feel the same way would not contribute to the gene pool and hence eventually only those who want to have kids will remain, He/She of course makes the assumption that there is a Genotype or Phenotype to select for in the first place.

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I am not so sure that was the most useful, I sure liked the main site chat to work on mobile even if I didn't want another app (messenger to be installed). Yeah i'm one of those few who prefer simple single app experience. I prefer if companies could try keep things a little more backward compatible. /rant

this was really really depressing to read. Feel bad for the man and I hope the prosecutor suffers the rest of his days

They will be forced to share the subscription revenue as per tech-crunch [1].

1. http://techcrunch.com/video/youtube-red-strips-out-ads-but-b...

'Somehow they always manage to destroy windows.'

this. Sigh. The number of times I have to clean up all the things she (my mom) manages to install 'tool bars and what not'.

I was wondering the same. Is asking why anything was downvoted also to be downvoted ? will my comment also be downvoted for asking why "asking why the parent comment was downvoted" ?

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tl,dr: its a campaign where you enter name and email and hit a button that pops up your email program filling in an email to the chairman of TRAI to support net neutrality in India. India needs net neutrality. An 1885 act surely can't be used as an argument to make faster lanes on the open internet.

I am so glad this happened. A step in the right direction. This section of the IT law with its vague wording was often misused by political parties in power. Good riddance.

I absolutely love this game, been playing this for a week now and cannot get enough of this game. My city is now really big (population of 175k).I have not played the latest city sim games, but have played the old games back in the day (like pharoah , pharoah2 ,sim city4 etc). Its amazing that this runs on Unity, supported to run on Windows, Mac OS AND Linux ! Not to mention its very reasonably priced at $30. Having the ability to start of with unlimted money (one of the mods available at release) makes this game really have a very low barrier to entry. You still have to unlock the unique buildings and monuments however. Speaking of unique buildings, to unlock some of them , you need to intentionally cause damage to your city (like cause 50% unemployment or have avg garbage pile up increase). I found myself trying to have throwaway districts intentionally built to be discarded once the unique building is unlocked. unlimited money after all :) all in all, great game, absolutely recommend this, however be prepared to lose a lot of productivity for a while ! you are warned.

that was awesome ! thanks for sharing :)

I agree. Your comment made me think about how images are perceived by our brains, we humans see very very tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, and its fascinating to see us create tools that can tweak what we can see by manipulating features on photos. Maybe unrelated, but definitely worth taking a step back and realize how little we are, how little we know, how little we see, and how much we mess with whatever little we know and see.

I think he meant had he not returned after leaving apple the first time.

why was this down voted ?

ps. I ask sincerely trying to understand the reasons when I see grayed out text that seem (to me) quite a reasonable comment.

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For someone who recently read a lot about Einstein and his work and learn what his theory actually accomplishes, this was a great read. I am glad I took 15 minutes of my time to read this paper. Personally I feel it sucks that almost every educated person can recollect his famous equation but a small fraction actually know what it is all about and how his work changed our understanding of space and time. I recommend anyone interested to learn more can check out this book by Author James Malcolm Bird , its on amazon [1] and free on google play [2].

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Einsteins-Theories-Relativity-And-Grav...

[2] - https://play.google.com/store/books/details/James_Malcolm_Bi...

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think its more like 1 in 5 according to [1]

[1]: http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/impact-of-hu...

correct me if i'm wrong, but this is what you are saying "poor countries should spend money on feeding the poor instead of funding fancy science projects"

well allow me to retort, having science projects trying to answer some of the biggest un-answered scientific questions would help with the following: 1. Retention of Talent: would enable physists to stay in india rather than immigrate elsewhere. 2. Boosts Economy: Expenditure as salary stays within the country and can help boost economy. 3. Innovation : innovation in advanced fields of physicts/space exploration can help develop new consumer technologies. 3. would enable governments to get international fame/credibility and quite possibly a seat at the big boy table.

Now you might wonder is this worth it, well I believe its worth spending a fraction of the GDP to fund such projects. Its not like all the funding given to such projects can solve the various poverty related problems the country faces.

>I agree with your point, but just made me smile in that we tend to look at a lot of (possibly) long dead stars from our past, too!

haha, well said. Although to take it to an extreme, every observation or study would have to have been by studying the past right from the milliseconds in the past to light years in the past.

exactly my thoughts too. If only we can use 2 different words... sigh

The real problem is however a philosophical one, how to drive down the point that there is no absolute truth,just absolute contradiction that disproves a (now disfunct) scientific theory . Unless you are making certain axiomatic assumptions or using the constructs of language for example 'all single men are bachelors', the best we can do is let our best theories make predictions and then conduct experiments to test those predictions.

The biggest misconception in most people (at least from my perspective from conversations involving evolution) is what constitutes a scientific theory, By definition from [1] , "A scientific theory is a series of statements about the causal elements for observed phenomena. A critical component of a scientific theory is that it provides explanations and predictions that can be tested. ".

People I speak to think its just a theory, hence a guess, a hunch, and not a fact, not proven etc, where as its actually the opposite of that, i.e we can test the predictions it makes, its as close to being proven as anything can be. If people can simply recognize the definition I bet more people can learn and accept Evolution. [2] explains this better.

[1]: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scientific_theory [2]: http://www.notjustatheory.com/

Why was this down voted ?

The following quote from the author: "Our brains behave like monkeys and it can be proven that most of our lives are about "what am I going to have for lunch?"..."

has this been proved ? would be very interested to know who proved this and how they went about doing it.

yup, an absolutely amazing read, having recently finished reading it, I have even more respect for the guy and his work. I am really hoping the new jobs movie puts him in better light than what the last movie did.

I was planning on writing a simple html5 card game with online multiplayer, would this combined with some basic sessioning logic help with server-client interactions for the gameloop ?